Young Wizards #09 - A Wizard of Mars by Diane Duane

Author:Diane Duane [Duane, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-21T06:00:00+00:00

Burroughs

Nita appeared in A puff of red dust and came down on the ground with a slight jar. She glanced around the stony red landscape, taking it all in; the little Spirit rover off to one side, and the still-settling smoke from what appeared to be a recent explosion. What the heck have they heen doing here? she thought. "Kit?"

"You just missed him," said a voice from behind her. She turned. Sitting there on a rock were Ronan and Darryl, looking at her with amusement. Darryl turned to Ronan. "You owe me a fiver," he said.

Ronan rolled his eyes, dug around in his pocket for a moment, and came up with a bill, which he stuffed into Darryl's held-out hand. Darryl accepted it with a smirk, then stared at it as he unrolled it. "Oh, man," Darryl said, annoyed, "this isn't even from Earth!"

"So stop whinging," Ronan said, "and go get it changed!" He gave Nita an ironical look. "You'd think he couldn't even get off the planet, the way he carries on."

Nita gave them a look and stepped away for a moment, as they were plainly in one of those boy moods that involved being as unhelpful as possible. The rover was sitting quietly by itself, for all the world as if it was having a perfectly ordinary day; whatever had been going on around here, it seemed unaffected. "Where'd he go?"

"A crater called Hutton," Ronan said. "About five minutes ago."

"He was okay when we talked to him last," Dar-ryl said.

Nita turned back toward them. "Was okay?" she said. "You mean you're not in touch with him now?"

Ronan stood up and dusted himself off. "No," he said. "We've been trying to reach him since just before you turned up."

She stared at them in concern and surprise. "Well, if you can't reach him," Nita said, "why the heck haven't you gone over there to find out what's going on?"

"Because we can't," Ronan said, sounding annoyed. "The site's blocked for transit."

Nita let out a long breath as annoyed as Ronan's. "Dammit," she said, "this keeps happening..." And she didn't like the sound of it. "Okay," she said under her breath, "we'll see about that. Bobo?"

But that was when her phone went off, loudly starting to sing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" from deep in her jeans pocket. "Now what?" Nita muttered, pulling the phone out and hitting the "answer" button. "Yeah?"

"Neets?" Carmela's voice said. "I dropped S'reee off in Great South Bay, and I'm back home now. But I find that we have a little situation going on here ..."

"Here, too," Nita said. "You tell me yours and I'll tell you mine."

"Three words," Carmela said. "Helena's home early."

"Uh-oh," Nita said.

"I've been trying to get through to Kit," Carmela said, "but I can't reach his phone. Neither can Mama or Pop. I tried using the closet to get over there, but it won't let me: keeps blathering about some kind of local limitation. And the Aged Parents are going to throw

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